Fletcher family near pond at Ludlow Hall, Spencer, Indiana, circa 1888
| Description: |
Exterior of Ludlow Hall, the country home of Calvin Fletcher, Jr. and his wife Emily (Beeler) Fletcher. Nothing is written on the back. A barefooted boy sits near a pond or lake and at a bench are two women, a baby, and a bearded man. The children are the right ages to be the grandsons of Calvin and Emily: Fletcher B. Wagner (born 1881) and Herbert Theodore Wagner (1886-1935), sons of Dr. Theodore Wagner and Sarah H. (Fletcher) Wagner. The woman to the left is possibly their mother Sarah. A woman is on the 2nd floor porch of the house.The Fletchers removed from Indianapolis to Spencer in June 1869 where they built this white stucco-covered Second Empire house in the 1870s and landscaped the grounds with lakes, ponds, and trees. It was named Ludlow after the Fletcher ancestral home of Ludlow, Vermont. It was located northeast of Spencer on the White River. The Fletchers sold the property in the early 1890s due to financial losses and returned to Indianapolis. The house was demolished in 1990. |
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| Origin: | 1888, circa |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/85EA33DA-CB49-4F23-BFE3-371741659370 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
Spencer, Owen County, Indiana, United States |
| Subjects: |
Georgia T. Brist Collection Houses Lakes & ponds Spencer (Ind.) Owen County (Ind.) |
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